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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Here at Cake Wrecks we tend to cycle through cakes pretty fast. In fact, if Jen's aunt hadn't been visiting and putting a cramp in her style, I wouldn't have had to wait to post today's Wreck for...uh, nearly a month.

So first, I want you to note that today's Wreck is, and I quote, a "Custom Decoration."

See? Told you.

I would also like you to note that Tres Leches is a milk cake. No fruit, no filling, just milk, cake, and icing.

OMG all the wrecks you post are funny, but THIS one is special. it made me LOL, literally. i love the commentary too. to answer your question... yes. yes, they give me wings, to fly faster out of that bakery and find one that doesn't give my husband hives every month. :)

Good Lord! You know, if they just put it in the bargain section and labelled it "Tres Leche Cake with Icing Mistake," it wouldn't have been nearly as disgusting. I would've thought, "Japanese flag," or "sunset." Instead, all I can think is "Why did I wear white pants without checking my calendar?"

Now see, when I saw the pic my first thought was boob with bright red nipple, it being a milk cake and all...but then I realized you were going for the period angle and I honestly don't know which one makes me want cake less...yikes!

My husband makes three milk cake at home for my kids. Its such a simple light and yummy cake. The red dot definately ruined it. Someone also needs to take a short video of the baker where someone point blank asks them what the hell they were thinking.

In the wreckerators defense, if they really were going for the maxi pad look they nailed it. The texture on the top of the cake is very reminiscent of the "dri-weave" on most of today's finest feminine products.

First of all, the thought of a kind of cake wholly devoted to the idea of it including milk kills me. Or, at the very least; it gives me bad gas, a sour attitude, and a few extra pimples.

Secondly, you add the implication that I'm going to be crabby, bloated, and crampy for a little over a week and you have a very crabby, gassy, sour Green who has cake but cannot eat it and craves ice cream but can't eat that either.

"Trees Leeches" wins the thread! Also, I think Miranda is spot-on with her theory of icing color spill.

On a somewhat related tangent, the first time I witnessed my partner having a nosebleed, the very first thought that popped into my head was "wow, your blood is SO red!" Apparently he didn't think it was too weird, because we're still dating.

I'm with Gary on this one. Here in Texas tres leches often have whipped topping on it. Heck Alton Brown puts whipped cream on his and how can he be wrong? Usually it's got whipped topping and mix of fruit (pineapples, oranges and strawberries or if you ask really nicely blackberries) and nuts on the side for a nice texture contrast. Either way it tastes a lot better than I bet that one does. Do we even know what the red goop is?

Now if only it were sitting in a puddle of red ooze as if there were an exit wound. how lovely.

wv: dommi. What kind of dommi made this cake and tried to sell it?

ya know, when people get tattoos that they need to change (like that of an ex-wife's name or something) the tattoo artist has to find a way to embellish the original "design" and make something new. there's NOTHING a baker can do about a red splotch? I mean, put several. A polka dot cake looks better than an "accident..." at least it looks "intentional." and maybe a little happy.

Oh thank you...I'm stuck in the hospital with my baby having RSV, and while I've always been an avid reader...it's really nice to have something to make me laugh, even under the most frustrating of circumstances. :) Abbie

I don't think I've ever had a Tres Leches cake without a fruit filling or one with icing instead of a light whipped cream. If a gringo was responsible for this, then I can laugh it off, but if a fellow Latino made this... O_O

And don't get me started on the red spot. The poor baker must have been out of panty liners that day.

I don't know what was worse - the cake, or the fact that I read the post, looked at the cake, gagged, read the comments, walked away for half the day, came back, read more comments, read the post again, and ONLY THEN did I get the puns.

I came back to red comments and I googled Tres Leches and noticed that a number of cakes that came up in image search had a maraschino cherry on top. Maybe that red blot was suppose to represent a cherry?

Well, I guess that would have to be a "custom decoration", as I could never imagine this to be mass produced--although maybe the cake underneath is (who wants propylene glycol in their cake???). Thank goodness it's one of a kind!

Maybe it is just me, but I think something has dried to the lid, rather than dripped on to the cake- food coloring or something that landed on the lid and the decorator was too lazy to go in the back and grab another.

Yikes!! Something about the combo of the texture and the color just left me saying ewww, yuck....gave me thoughts of things like my fibroid surgery and other assorted unpleasantries around that lovely aspect of womanhood. Ditto to what Diana said! Love the play on words in the title, though...that was funny as heck!

@Angela said... "I'm with Gary on this one. Here in Texas tres leches often have whipped topping on it."

Yeah, strawberries, too. It's supposed to be a very moist (read: "wet") cake from the Mexican/Hispanic tradition.

OTOH, making it look like an oozing tumor or a panty-stain is NOT going to persuade anyone to pick it up for his best little princess' quinceanera.

BTW: I live in Cajun Texas. Could you and Jen put up a King Cake sometime? There's no greater wreck than what amounts to a misshapen challah covered in gold, purple (almost black) and green icing, flattened into a flimsy cardboard container and shipped to your house shmooshed with a choking hazard thrown in as a surprise. Yay! Go baby Jesus!

Often this traditionally Hispanic cake is layered with fruit, strawberries, mangoes. So Tres Leches cakes do have fruit in them...sorry to burst the er, bubble here. But, it's true. This is dreadful looking.

I love this site, it´s so funny...The "TRES LECHES CAKE" or "PASTEL DE LAS TRES LECHES"... It´s a very popular cake in MÉXICO, usually, only have white butter frosting, it´s a vanilla cake, with a mix of 3 different milks, regular, condensated and evaporated. Great taste!!!... but the decoration of this one... no comments.. JAJAJA

We had tres leches for our wedding cake, but we actually ordered it with a strawberry filling. (Delicious!) The "decoration" is clearly a mistake, but the filling probably wasn't. (Except that it leaked out.)

Ok, I have never actually commented on these, not in the forums anyways, I comment on them but to my husband in the other room as I desperately gasp for air....LOL...but WOW, THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE BEST YET!!! Your commentary just makes my day!!

Ok now I have seen everything. Lovely reminding us of that happy time of the month.. If I didn't love cake so much that just might have turned me off forever, not quite yet though unless something worse out there is waiting to get me. Lol glad my hubby didn't see this cake.

I'm part Cuban so traditional Tres Leches is very near and dear to my heart, and now...it's...been...RUINED! Forever ruined! I will never be bale to go to a family reunion without simultaneously snorting with laughter and gagging! Thanks, Jen. :P

What looks like happened to this cake--in the bigger, expanded version--is that the fruit filling (yes, tres leches often have FRUIT fillings like strawberries, etc) somehow bubbled up from inside the cake. Could be from sitting out too long and/or temperature change? Either way, the cake should've been pulled.

You're killing me here. I've had several hundred servings of Tres Leches from many, many restaurants and it is always the same. It is a light cake soaked in three different milks. There is no fruit in the cake. I have never even seen it offered in the most authentic restaurants in Miami. In fact, I don't even know how you would go about putting a fruit filling in a soggy cake. The milk would be pink and it would probably taste disgusting. That said, if you have actually seen a real Tres Leches cake with fruit filling, I invite you to cut into it, take a picture and send it to me. Consider it a challenge.

I actually made a period cake like this (not quite as disgustingly realistic with the red dot) at my teenage daughter's request when her friend FINALLY entered puberty at age 16. They felt it was cause for a celebration.

This one left me speechless. I mean ... what the????Seriously, do we need to celebrate with cake this erm ... rite of womanhood? The mind boggles. (however after having seen some of those Thanksgiving cakes, it probably shouldn't surprise me in the slightest. I'm still in therapy from all those poo-tornado-exploding-penis-turkey-things.)

And to add to my confusion, "tres leches" means "very lick" in French. Imagine what a doofus I felt like when I discovered it means "three milks" in Spanish. LOLHad never heard of this sort of cake but now that I read about it, sounds rather nice.

Yes, they do frost tres leches cakes and they do sometimes contain a jelly filling or fruit atop the frosting. We have these cakes all the time, bought from our Latino bakers or made by hand by my Mexican family. A tres leches cake can be made into a custom creation. **rolls eyes**

BUT they could have really done without the leaky jam. It's not a good look.

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